Re: [dxwg] definitions clarifications of conforms to (#1130)

@all thanks for the feedback.

Taking the examples, which clarified the intention,  by @makxdekkers 

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> So maybe we all agree and we are confusing ourselves.
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> If we go back to the question @bertvannuffelen asked, I think the answer is that
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> `ex:catalogRecordX dct:conformsTo ex:metadataprofileP` says that the metadata for the dataset conforms to some metadata profile (e.g. GeoDCAT-AP)
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The scope of this statement is the dcat:Resource (because it catalogrecord points to dcat:Resource) and its related distributions. Does the scope include the metadata of the catalog to which the the catalogrecord belongs?  If so then the remark https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1130#issuecomment-549074854 is relevant. @makxdekkers states in a respons not.
Observe that this scope is different in the examples below.

> `ex:datasetY dct:conformsTo ex:implementingrulesQ` says that the dataset conforms to some set of rules (e.g. about how data was collected, what quality process was applied etc.)
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The scope of this statement is the dcat:Resource it is subject of.

> `ex:distributionZ dct:conformsTo ex:datastructureR` says that the data in the distribution conformsTo some datastructure specification (e.g. SDMX for statistical data)
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The scope of this statement is the dcat:distribution it is subject of.

The additional example to be taken into account is: 
`ex:catalog dct:conformsTo ex:standard` says that the ....

 Can you complete here the sentence? Is that GeoDCAT-AP? or is that another document and explicitly NOT a DCAT profile?

According to the sharing of that property through dcat:Resource its scope must be only the catalog it is subject of. Since a profile as GeoDCAT-AP is an expression about all entities refering to GeoDCAT-AP in the conforms-to would naturally lead to the interpretation that the whole catalog follows GeoDCAT-AP.
But that is not true according to the scope I wrote.

Although the examples make things a lot clearer, one can see that the current definitions leave room for different interpretations. 





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